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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title The leaky pipeline in the Swiss university system : Identifying gender barriers in postgraduate education and networks using longitudinal data
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Regula Julia Leemann
  • Philipp Dubach
  • Stefan Boes
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie = Revue Suisse de Sociologie = Swiss Journal of Sociology
Publisher Seismo
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0379-3664
Volume 36
Number 2
Page Range 299 - 323
Date 2010
Abstract Text Recent empirical studies provide evidence in favour of an equalization of male and female educational chances on the Master's level. This paper tackles the question whether gender inequalities develop after the completion of a Master's degree while starting an academic career. Using individual data from the Swiss Higher Education Information System we find that over the last decades the doctoral and habilitation rates for women are nearly always lower than the rates for men. With panel data on doctoral graduates in 2002 (drawn from the Swiss Graduate Survey 2003 and 2007) we identify the poorer integration of female emerging researchers in international academic networks and the related differences in social capital as a major cause for gender specific drop-out rates.
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